Panel Discussion on book, Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real | April 3, 2019

Panel Discussion on Professor Arka Chattopadhyay’s book Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real (2018).

The panellists include:
Professor Soumyabrata Choudhury, Associate Professor, TPS/SSA, JNU
Professor Debashis Bandyopadhyay, Professor in English Department, Vidyasagar University
Angus McBlane, Assistant Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar.

Abstract:
Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real proposes writing as a mathematical and logical operation to build a bridge between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Samuel Beckett’s prose works. Arka Chattopadhyay studies aspects such as the fundamental operational logic of a text, use of mathematical forms like geometry and arithmetic, the human obsession with counting, the moving body as an act of writing and love, and sexuality as a challenge to the limits of what can be written through logic and mathematics. Chattopadhyay reads Beckett’s prose works, including How It s, Company, Worstward Ho, Malone Dies and Enough to highlight this terminal writing, which halts endless meanings with the material body of the word and gives Beckett a medium to inscribe what cannot be written otherwise.

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Mesmerized ! DB's take on this is so profound and explicit. Thank you for uploading this video. More to come.